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A multimedia presentation of Macbeth. The text of the play is supplemented with an introduction, information on the characters, scene by scene commentaries, and a selection of essays. In addition, there are...
The performance of Shakespeare’s plays in the future is examined by Sarah Annes Brown, the co-director of the Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England.
Radio arts programme. John Pickford explores the intellectual and scientific thought that shaped Shakespeare’s period.
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode explores the character of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and how the new production of the play from the Shakespeare Theatre...
Documentary supporting the claim that Edward de Vere was the real author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Features interviews with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, who both subscribe to the theory.
Documentary. In Lepoglava in Croatia, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have imposed brutal methods to further so-called prisoner rehabilitation. Three prisoners (two murderers...
Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss why some of Shakespeare’s plays are less likely to be performed or admired and consider how this has changed over the centuries. Their long list...
The first experimental television transmission shown at the Radio Olympia exhibition. Two programmes were transmitted from Alexandra Palace daily throughout the Radio Show to September 5th. The programme...
A student film. Berlin, six years after the fall of the wall, is depicted as a permanent building site which long lost its symbolic power to suggest a new prosperity. People are unemployed and homeless...